My Comeback Begins with Collecting Scrap in the Celestial Realm

At thirty-five, Liu Wei pedals a tricycle through Suzhou in the Northwest, collecting scrap to support his family from dawn to dusk. In return, his wife, Li Yulan, humiliates him in public and hands him divorce papers, driving him out of their home with nothing.

With nowhere else to go, he settles in an abandoned cave dwelling at the foot of a mountain on the outskirts of town. Inside is an old earthen kang. Every night, when he lies down to rest on it, his soul can pass through the void and travel to the ruins of the Immortal Realm.

The ruins are piled high with materials the immortals have discarded: failed pills, broken pieces of magical artifacts, and formation banners drained of spiritual energy. He swallows a single discarded pill and immediately breaks through to the first level of Qi Refining, his strength and stamina increasing a hundredfold.

By day, he rides his tricycle around Suzhou collecting mortal-world scrap and living an honest life as usual. At night, he lies down on the earthen kang and sleeps, his soul entering the Immortal Realm to gather immortal materials and refine his cultivation as he slowly advances toward Foundation Establishment and the Golden Core.

Everyone thinks he is just a worthless scavenger from the lowest rung of society. They never imagine that this man, who can visit the heavens simply by sleeping on a cave dwelling's earthen kang, will one day embark on the path to immortality and leave all those who looked down on him far behind.